Run NodeJS as a Service on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Run NodeJS as a Service on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

• Go to /etc/init/
• $ sudo vim yourapp.conf
• Paste script.conf
• $ sudo start yourapp

Reference

Thanks to [kvz.io] (http://kvz.io/blog/2009/12/15/run-nodejs-as-a-service-on-ubuntu-karmic/) for this!

script.conf

description "node.js server"
author      "Foo Bar"

# used to be: start on startup
# until we found some mounts weren't ready yet while booting:

start on started mountall
stop on shutdown

# Automatically Respawn:

respawn
respawn limit 99 5

script
    
    export HOME="/root"
    exec /usr//bin/nodejs /where/yourapp/is/app.js >> /var/log/node.log 2>&1

end script

post-start script
   
   # Optionally put a script here that will notifiy you node has (re)started
   # /root/bin/hoptoad.sh "node.js has started!"
   
end script